Tight vs Loose Translation of the Book of Mormon | Ep. 1599 | LDS Discussions Ep. 06
John, LDS Discussions and @NEMOTHEMORMON go over the tight and lose translations of the Book of Mormon. LDS Disc Full Playlist: • LDS Discussions - An Examination of Mormon... Show Notes: LDS Discussions website: https://www.ldsdiscussions.com/ LDS Discussions essay on Tight vs. Loose: https://www.ldsdiscussions.com/tight-... Earlier MS episode on BOM Translation with LDS Discussions: • Book of Mormon Translation | Ep. 1585 | LD... John Larsen’s Tight vs Loose Translation video: http://johnlarsen.org/podcast/Archive... CES Letter: https://cesletter.org/ Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis/How to talk to believing family and friends: https://www.mormonfaithcrisis.com/com... Sandra Tanner polygamy episode on MS. D&C 132: https://mormonstories.org/podcast/the... LDS Discussions episode on 116 Pages: https://www.ldsdiscussions.com/116pages Michael Coe episodes: https://mormonstories.org/podcast/mic... FairMormon essay on Translation: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/a... Nemo the Mormon Podcast: / @nemothemormon --------------- We are 100% donor funded! Please click here to donate to keep this content coming!: https://donorbox.org/mormon-stories?d... --------------- *MSP on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4sDzk7d... *Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... *MSP Blog: https://www.mormonstories.org/episodes/ *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mormstories... *Patreon: / mormonstories *TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mormonstories... *Discord: / discord Contact Us! *[email protected] *PO Box 171085 Salt Lake City, UT 84117 Timecodes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:06:03 Talking with believing family and friends 00:07:58 Defining a Tight or Loose Translation of the Book of Mormon 00:13:11 How we’re defining a tight translation 00:24:05 What did Emma Smith witness? 00:25:09 What did David Whitmer witness? 00:28:50 The witnesses all describe a tight translation 00:33:08 Why the translation method matters 00:33:45 The King James Bible insertions need a loose translation 00:39:53 An example of translation issues between the KJV/BOM?JST 00:45:34 Anachronisms require a loose translation 00:49:42 Literal Biblical stories in the Book of Mormon require loose 00:53:51 Changes to the BoM require a loose translation 01:01:04 Surrounding influences require a loose translation 01:06:08 Hebraisms require a tight translation 01:08:07 Names of plants, animals and money require tight translations 01:10:35 An example of needing it both ways 01:15:57 Some apologetic answers to the tight vs loose question 01:32:22 Conclusion on the tight vs loose debate #LDS #Mormon #PostMormon #ExMormon #MormonStories #Religion #Education
